Washing the Clay – From the Individual Memory to the Collective History by Lisa Barbosa

In this exhibition, the wall that separates the public from the domestic is broken down, confronting the two until they dissolve. The expected comfort of the home and the discomfort of its secrets. Paternal power and the apparent fragility of flower lovers. Death and Eroticism. The recurring and redundant search to untie the knot that has been unconsciously developed or, more correctly, inherited. "Washing the Clay is an ironic, heavy-handed and sensitive attempt at representations that highlight human behaviour and its most brutal instincts. It creates a fable of clay that connects with our senses and individual emotions, inevitably tied to our collective experiences and memories. A little of me, of you, and of us."

Lisa Barbosa (1998) studied Fine Arts - Sculpture at the Faculdade de Belas Artes do Porto (Faculty of Arts of Porto) and furthered her training in Ceramics through the Creative Ceramics course at the Professional Training Centre for the Ceramic Industry in Caldas da Rainha. Raised in the countryside of Barcelos, she came into early contact with the clay that her family worked with, an ancestral material that sparked a passion she now expresses through Sculpture, Installation, Drawing, and Textiles. Her artistic experiences often float within a circle of domestic and familial contexts, where small details and representations carry deep, poetic, and occasionally ironic meanings. Individual memory, tradition, and her cultural heritage are the key themes, as she strives to recreate and reinterpret the memories tied to clay, the core material of her artistic practice.